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By: wolfsage
Greetings from DynDNS.
In an attempt to reduce unnecessary load on our servers, we would like to ask
you if you would be willing to make some changes to ddclient. What we would
like is for the client to disable updates if it receives an error code from
our server, which is the desired behavior as documented in our API:
http://www.dyndns.com/developers/specs/return.html
The reason for this is that all returns from our update service aside from "good"
and "nochg" are fatal errors. This means that updates have failed for some reason
or other, and if repeated attempts to update continue to fail, the hostnames
may become blocked for abuse by our systems. The client should disable updating
until the user has made the necessary changes to the configuration.
The following is a sample of returns generated by our services to ddclient/3.7.0
update clients over the course of a day:
Total returns:
good: 13,762
bad: 44,576
nochg: 924
Breakdown of bad returns:
abuse: 361
badauth: 12,401
nohost: 24,158
notfqdn 2,046
!yours: 5,610
As you can see, there are far more failed attempts than good attempts to update
hosts from ddclient due to the client not being configured properly, and not
disabling updates when it receives an error. We believe fixing this problem
would be beneficial both to our users and users of your client.
We would be willing to work with you towards fixing this problem and look forward
to hearing from you. Thank you for your time.
Matt
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Matthew Horsfall
mho...@dy...
Certification Technician
Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
http://www.dyndns.com
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